'function' object has no attribute 'as_view'

Question

I am trying to use class based views, and get a strange error. The way I'm using the view seems to be the normal way:

ingredients/models.py:

from django.db import models
from django.utils import timezone


class Ingredient(models.Model):
    name        = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    description = models.TextField()

    def get_prices():
        purchases   = self.purchase_set.all()
        prices      = [purchase.price for purchase in purchases]

ingredients/views.py:

from django.shortcuts           import render, render_to_response, redirect
from django.http                import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
from django.views.generic.edit  import CreateView
from .models                    import Ingredient, Purchase

def IngredientCreateView(CreateView):
    model = Ingredient
    fields = ['all']

ingredients/urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

from ingredients.views import IngredientCreateView

urlpatterns = patterns('',            
    url(r'^new_ingredient$',          IngredientCreateView.as_view(),             name='new-ingredient'),
)

I get

AttributeError at /ingredients/new_ingredient
'function' object has no attribute 'as_view'

I am on django 1.8.5. Why won't this view work? Thank you

Answer 1

IngredientCreateView should be a class. So your views.py replace:

def IngredientCreateView(CreateView):

with:

class IngredientCreateView(CreateView):